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Quick Tip: Re-order WordPress Comments 3 Mar 2011 | 11:00 pm
I’m implementing a comment karma system (think Reddit on a website I’m building in WordPress). The strange thing is, WordPress already has a value for comment karma in the database, so there’s not muc...
Slowing Down 9 Dec 2010 | 11:00 pm
Posting frequency will be very diminished in the next several weeks as I work on the many projects I have.
OpenCart vs. Magento 2 Dec 2010 | 11:00 pm
Recently, I’ve been playing around with two open source shopping cart CMS’s: OpenCart and Magento. I’d like to give my impressions of them. Magento will do everything Me: I’d like to make a simple e...
To Enhance Productivity, Do Something Else 11 Nov 2010 | 11:00 pm
Have you ever stared a screen, hoping something would come to your head, waiting for it, waiting for it, waiting for it? “I just need to make this image,” “I just need to write this posts,” or “I just...
NaNoWriMo is Upon Us 28 Oct 2010 | 09:00 pm
[The return of the quick plug: if you want to support National Novel Writing Month, writing, teaching children/young adults to write, and other awesome writing-related things, you can sponsor me for N...
Reliable Devices Must Be 100% Reliable 21 Oct 2010 | 09:00 pm
To talk about reliability, let’s talk about what happens when something is unreliable. A couple months ago, I needed a way to connect my non-wireless PC to a wireless network, since the wireless netw...
The Maze Method of Website Design 14 Oct 2010 | 09:00 pm
“You have two minutes to make a maze that takes at least one minute to solve.” — from Inception When designing the site map and navigation for a website, you are, essentially, creating a maze. You wa...
Weird But Awesome Wrap Up 7 Oct 2010 | 09:00 pm
Well, that was a weirdly awesome September, and a good start to The UNUsable Web. Going forward, we’ll be posting once a week (on Thursdays) to give me more time to work on a secret project I’ve got u...
Unexpected Awesomeness 30 Sep 2010 | 09:00 pm
Recently, I watched all 5 seasons of The Wire. It was an excellent show, with acting, writing, and directing that I’ve come to expect from cable series, but they went the extra mile in a way I’ve neve...
Quick Tip: Don’t Close Your Last PHP Tag 28 Sep 2010 | 09:00 pm
PHP programmers are typically taught to always close their PHP tags. I’m here to tell you that’s a bad idea. Why? Well, say you’re setting a header, but you accidentally have a space after your last ...
